Sounds as if Jebby has been talking to his older dumber brother. (It also sounds as if neither of them are exactly brain trusts.)

Maybe Obama can't say, outright, that civil and privacy rights are being protected because they fuckin' aren't. Maybe he also realizes that anyone who didn't fall off a turnip truck yesterday knows that the government lies about such things.

What isn't said is that Jebby, if he runs and wins, will be just as much a national security state hack as has been Obama, his brother before him and gawd knows how many other Presidents. He's just getting in his whacks at Obama because there's no other declared Democrat that he can attack at the moment. What we do know, and Jebby seems to ignore, is that Obama has been signing those enormous, extravagant budgets for the NSA. I'd say that constitutes the defense of them that matters in the hallowed halls of the Village.

Is this an indication of what's going to be the biggest revelation of this election cycle? That Jebby may be the "smart one" in the Bush family, but that that estimation turns out to be the result of a really, really low bar?